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Don’t Waste Another Day …

I just came across this quote and thought that I would say a few things about it:

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”

Andre Maurois
1885-1967, Writer

 We do don’t we? spend too much, way too much time worrying about small things that should rather be forgotten or despised. The other day my son went through a traumatic (for him at least) event. His girlfriend moved on with her life and broke up. For days he could think of nothing but how sad he was that she no longer had feelings for him.

I’d talk with him for hours, and think that I was making a little bit of headway to help him get over her and then he would respond, “But do you think she still have feelings for me?” What, was I talking to myself?

It then dawned on me that he was looking at life through Rachel-colored-glasses. And as long as he was wearing those glasses he could think of nothing but how everything related to and about her. I told him that he would look back in a year upon this time in his life and he will regret it, or better – he will have forgotten it all together.

Life is too short to waste your time wearing glasses tinted with things you’d be better off despising or forgetting.

So what colored glasses are you wearing? Maybe it’s time to take them off and get busy devoting your time to worthwhile actions. Perhaps it’s time you start creating a magnificent life.

Go ahead, take them off and start creating.